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MYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 112, Issue -, Pages 1107-1114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2008.03.003
Keywords
Fossil fungi; Endophytism; Lycophyta; Oogonium; Paragynous antheridium; Periderm; Peronosporomycetes (Oomycetes); Visean
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- National Science Foundation [EAR-0542170]
- Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation [V-3.FLF-DEU/1064359]
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Structurally preserved periderm of the lycophyte Lepidodendron rhodumnense from the Visean (Mississippian) of central France contains a peronosporomycete (Combresomyces cornifer gen. sp. nov.) that occurs in the form of pyriform. to subglobose terminal oogonia. on the surface is a conspicuous ornamentation, which may have formed through condensation of a mucilaginous extra-oogonial wall secretion. Some oogonia contain thin-walled spherules, which may represent (walled) oospheres or spores of an endoparasitic fungus (?chytrid), whereas single, large spheres in the interior are interpreted as oospores. Antheridia adpressed to several of the specimens are clavate and paragynous. This discovery sheds light on the morphology and biology of peronosporomycetes in a terrestrial ecosystem some 330 My ago. Although the organism occurs exclusively in the periderm of L. rhodumnense, it is not known whether it represents a symptomless endophyte, pathogen, or saprotroph. (C) 2008 The British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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